How about slowing down the Fedora release cycle to allow for more QA???

[Doug Brott]

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

>All,
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>Okay, this is probably going to immerse me in a flame war, but, to put it
>bluntly, I'm scared spitless.
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>Would it hurt that much to slow down the release cycle of fedora to match
>what RHL used to enjoy?  To help ensure that a *WORKING* distro is released?
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>Don't get me wrong.  I loved RHL with an evangelical zeal.  I desperately
>want to do the same with fedora.  But I just don't have the confidence in it
>that I did with RHL...not after having subscribed to this list.
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>Ben
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Ben,

   Fedora is new.  Not only is it RH10, but it is also a split from the 
"old" way of distribution.  What we have is two big things happening at 
one time.  Redhat is in essence handing the core off to the open-source 
community.  You are seeing lots of messages here because there is no 
other support model now.  Many of these folks were probably 
calling/writing RedHat and you just didn't see them.  I believe that is 
the whole point of doing this sort of distribution anyway.

   I have every expectation that the core will stabilize, but it will 
probably be with Fedora-core 2 or possibly Fedora-core 3.  If you are 
worried, stick with RH9.  It's a very solid OS and will handle most, if 
not all, of your computing needs.  I consider myself and enthusiest and 
made the leap to see what all of the fuss was about.  After smoothing 
out a few bumps, I've been happy with the results.  I believe that RH9 
is more stable than FC1, but not by a whole lot. 

I find the update mechanism is actually easier in FC1, but only after 
you go through the stumbling block of learning a new way to do it.   I 
maintain a localized repository for udpates and it is much easier to 
setup/maintain in FC1 than it was in RH9.  And from the client side, it 
becomes a simple one-liner in a config file.  The problem is that parts 
of it are broken, but there are fixes available.  You won't see this in 
FC2 because it will definitely be fixed by then.

If you continue with FC1, please don't worry too much.  Even though you 
may feel you are in a buggy environment, most things run very well.  If 
you are only using client tools (browsing, e-mail, etc.), then you 
probably won't see any problems.

-- 
Doug Brott
brott at redh.com